and kenya, they say they only have three weeks left or less. three weeks of food supplies, much more on that tonight. we re going to talk to a lot of folks about the situation on the ground here in somalia. reporters who have been covering it for us for weeks. we begin with breaking news out of washington. harry reid becoming the first member named to the super committee, they are patty murray of washington state, max baucus montana and john kerry massachusetts. this comes at the end of the day that saw wall street climbing out of the smoking hole. part of the reason squabbling over the debt. the question tonight, will this super committee end the squabbling or will they create a whole new problem. john king is sticking around for us tonight. also with us, david gergen. john what are you hearing about the names given to the super committee. we won t know the full composition, therefore the chemistry of this committee until we get the other picks in the coming days. max bauc
they dug the dirt out and it s in there. you were going to in the beginning of this, it was a rivalry. they believe someone from alabama because of the huge rivalry did this? that s what he said? you can assume that. assume a 62-year-old unemployed man just on the radio one day said i only live 30 miles from auburn, i killed those trees. they re going to die. and all the arborists and the people at auburn don t know what to do. there s such a lethal dose in the dirt there s nothing they can do right now. they re going to try to take some away. you can t rip away dirt from the roots because then you kill the tree anyway. this happened in austin, texas, years ago when they tried to kill the treaty tree. they put sugar on the roots, mist over the trees. what this herbicide does is it stops the photosynthesis in the leafs from making energy for the tree and then the leafs fall off and literally the tree kills
montana. it was six stories high. when the earthquake hit one year ago it crumbled entirely. there were 280 people killed right here. it s now being rebuilt slowly and with private funds. no government aid or any money from ngos. and that s the way it s been in haiti. much of the reconstruction that you do see in the street is being done piecemeal. people trying to fix up their own homes using wheelbarrows, buckets, and picks to try to shovel dirt out. and that rubble removal is still the biggest challenge in this country. we also heard from the prime minister that the death toll has been revised upwards. it was 230,000. it is now 316,000 people who died either during the earthquake itself or in the days after it. that is 3% of the entire population of haiti. all over this city and all over this country. specifically at 4:53 p.m. that s when the earthquake hit.
shaking their heads. no one is saying anything officially right now, but some ex-agents are talking publicly and saying that this is just a sign that mexico is unable to hold these traffickers. i remember years ago, i think it was in the 80s, i was in one of those tunnels. it starts in a house outside the prison. they dig down. and then they dig in using mining engineers into the prison, under the wall, and then they pop up. and that s presumably what happened in this case. it had a ventilation system it had a track, it had a motorcycle in there. they had a method for moving the dirt out. and then ultimately they popped up in the prison and he left. chapo guzman left. it s a dramatic escape. and it s one that the mexicans had predicted wouldn t happen. he was in a maximum security prison. but it has happened.